Apprenticeships at Guinness Dublin
Apprentices - St James Gate Brewery – Dublin Ireland
Closing Date: 2nd September 2011
The Guinness Dublin Brewery is part of Guinness, Baileys and European RTD.
The Brewery provides opportunities for a number of Apprenticeships, each for duration of 4 years.
Apprenticeships are run in conjunction with FÁS, the National Training Authority and are time and standards based.
During their apprenticeship each apprentice will achieve specific skills, which are competency based before they move onto the next phase. The company will work with external trainers to ensure that each apprentice is receiving the best possible training.
These roles of Apprentice Electrician and Apprentice Fitter provide assistance to team members of the Engineering Dept in their day-to-day duties. The function of the Engineering Dept is to maintain process plant to allow production programs to be completed as scheduled.
Purpose of Role
To assist Team Members of the Engineering Dept in their day-to-day duties by applying skills gained during on and off the job training in the maintenance of plant.
As a member of the maintenance team, assist team members in their day-to-day duties to ensure all plant is working at optimum capacity.
On-site training supervised and assessed by Craft Technicians and Engineers.
To work on a rotational basis around the site to maximise training, including working with main Contractors and Services Contractor
Qualifications and experience required
Minimum Entry Requirements
Completed Leaving Certificate, or equivalent, with 5 Ds (including Maths & English) and
To be at least 17 years of age on 1st April 2011
In addition, the following qualities are required:
Demonstrate an interest in and aptitude for the field (i.e. Electrical or Mechanical engineering).
The ability to work well as a member of a team.
The ability to adapt to change and develop skills to meet these changes.
The ability to extend their skills base beyond a single discipline.
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FAS Can Make Unemployment Worse
In Ireland a report into how State agencies encourage and assist the unemployed to return to work has found that they can have the opposite effect .
The report,by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) says that those who are assisted by the State while on the dole were less likely to return to work than the average welfare recipient.
They found that participation in programmes run by FAS increased the probability of subsequent employment by between 10 and 14 per cent.
However, Fás “activation interviews” with jobseekers resulted in the chances of entering employment being about 17 per cent lower for those who went through the interview process.
Overall – the effect of FAS was either zero, or at best weakly positive.
One strange rule in FAS – is that someone losing a job who had claimed unemployment benefit in the past is excluded from getting assistance in job searches and training.
Another failing identified was that one in four of those unemployed people eligible for assistance by the State were not identified . Poor communications between the Department of Social Protection and FAS are the primary reason for this.
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Changes to FAS Work Placement Scheme
We wrote about the FAS Work Placement Scheme that was launched back in June 2009.
Some changes to this scheme were announced recently – which will make it accessible to more people from December 1st 2009.
For unemployed participants the following criteria have been amended:
Recipients of most social welfare payments, including Job Seekers’ Allowance and Job Seekers’ Benefit, will now be eligible to apply. Unemployed graduates who are not receiving a social welfare payment will also now be eligible to apply.
2009 graduates are now also eligible to apply
The period, for which participants have to be in receipt of a social welfare payment in order to be eligible, has been reduced from 6 months to 3 months.
The requirement for a firm to have at least 10 employees has been removed.
•Previously firms could only participate if they did not have redundancies in the previous 6 months. This constraint has been reduced to 3 months. However, the level of redundancies in the last three months were less than 5% of the workforce, these firms will be eligible to participate.
The duration of the work placement has been increased to a maximum of 9 months. (was 6 months)
All changes take effect from December 1st 2009
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